Underwater Lighting Secrets Revealed by Award-Winning Photographer Brett Stanley; Strobes, Triggers+

Renowned photographer Brett Stanley explains how to best make use of lighting underwater. In this interview at his underwater studio in Long Beach, CA, Brett explains how he uses flash, strobes, triggers, and other lights to create amazing imaging underwater, using the Outex underwater housing system for cameras, and add on accessories.
Photographer Brett Stanley is one of the leading underwater photographers in the world. Brett has an extensive photography and cinematography resume that includes award-winning photos, music videos and album covers, and cinematography. Brett is a sought-after lecturer and teaches underwater photography around the world all year long.
This video interview shows Brett using underwater housings, such as the Outex waterproof housing system to control various cameras, lenses, strobes, triggers, and remote lights to execute his vision and create stunning still and video images underwater.
The Outex set up works with any underwater camera housing, including Outex, Nauticam, Aquatica, Aquatech, Ikelite, etc. It pairs with the Outex Pro Kit as a complete studio system that can be used with film, dslr, mirrorless, and several medium format and/or video cameras, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Leica, Lumix, Hasselblad, RED, Black Magic, Phase One, Sigma, and several others.
You can learn more at www.Outex.com
Brett has build an underwater studio in Long Beach, CA that's used for still portraits, video sets, and making movies, where he controls ambient lighting and uses a variety of lights, flash, strobes, constant lights, etc. to create various imaging settings and scenarios.
Learn more or purchase everything you need to shoot like Brett at:
outex.com/products/brett-stanley-special-kit

[@albertG]

Nice

[@michaelandryley]

What is the brand of the under water flash/softbox/etc…

[@Outex]

Outex is the housings. The triggers, soft boxes, flash, etc are various different brands. The housing is brand agnostic.

[@michaelandryley]

@@Outex I realize that. I’m curious about the underwater flash and how it is synced with the trigger and used in the softbox in conjunction with the strobes outside the pool.

[@Outex]

@@michaelandryley We'll check with Brett and ask him to chime in...

[@brettstanley225]

@@michaelandryley Hey Michael, so I use an optical slave to sync the underwater strobes with the above water ones. You can also use long optic fibre cable to connect the above and below flash's optical triggers. Hope that helps!

[@BespokeVisionaries]

@@brettstanley225 Hey Brett thanks for this; are you using a normal speedlight as your underwater strobe or an actual underwater strobe that is triggered by the light above?